Why Apple Stopped Using Intel Chips

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[@eksmad]

@@NobleGamer889 You should never trust sponsorships/ads on KZbin and just assume from the beginning it's a scam.

[@devsda1]

Yeah, I “recently discovered” this 4 years ago…

[@carlweston4808]

recently discovered? recently discovered? recently discovered?

[@DuesenbergJ]

Thank you for playing the engagement game. The algorithm will be pleased.

[@d33zknots88]

And?

[@mendodave]

I heard Apple makes an M1 chip!

[@rileyinbali]

No way!!! That's amazing! Is it x86 or Arm? ​@@mendodave

[@smidgeondutchrabbit]

intel used to be able to make good processors but now they can only make hot plates

[@Joe-wk9ow]

This is what happens when you don't have coipition for the last decade or so and then you are hit in the face with AMD Ryzen. I think Nvidia is next as the power on the RTX 5090 is insane.

[@scottgfx]

Intel started making hotplates in 2000 with the Pentium 4. If my understanding is correct, they went back to the Pentium 3 and re-engineered it to become the "Core" line of chips.

[@OctavioGaitan]

I use an old Pentium 4 Prescott hot plate to cook hot dogs. LOL :P

[@OKZ15]

Apple Explained's face showing is such a weird concept to me. But I think I like it.

[@copyer9088]

He’s done it before are you new to this channel?

[@YahmahaR7]

Looks like AI

[@squeakyfoxx]

@@YahmahaR7 not really

[@FruityKoala]

It almost kind of looks ai. Could just be a high frame rate or something though. But the voice does sound off

[@alexejvornoskov6580]

It looks like the channel was hijacked, because i dont remember that videos on that channel used to spread so much BS before. Its his second video of his that i saw recently after long time of not watching(and before i only watched very vew on topics that were interesting), but both of the recent videos came with very obvious bs, thinking that the viewer are dumb or Apple a$$ licking, that wasnt there before. That used to be pretty okay channel, now its just...

[@saifahmad1921]

Best decision they’ve ever made.

[@mr.dude1338]

agreed

[@gabrielreisinger8047]

Intel,AMD, and Qualcomm still can match the M series macs in single core performance.

[@alexcuevas5633]

the biggest reason why I and a lot of people are buying Macs now

[@Websurger]

@gabrielreisinger8047 Do they match performance per watt though?

[@jinraigami3349]

@gabrielreisinger8047 They couldn't. What they could compete is multicore peerformance.

[@AchyutChaudhary]

*Bro…I appreciate your long-form-style content, but can you also please continue your to-the-point quick explainer videos, and your frequent macOS/ iOS update series please :)*

[@Zellzoi]

I love these videos

[@kevikiru]

21:44 The A4 wasn't introduced with iPhone 4, it was introduced with the original iPad. In fact, the A4 in the iPhone was significantly downclocked. Small detail though...awesome documentary. Edit: Another small detail...when you say that they did not have to pay their chip surplier, it doesn't make sense. Maybe what you mean is that they did not have to pay for the margins of an off the shelf chip. They still had to pay Arm to licence ArmV7 ISA, they had to pay Samsung to manufacture the chips, and they had to pay licensing fees to Imagination Tech. for GPU designs.

[@dlnishantabhishek2815]

Samsung doesn't manufacture chips it's TSMC

[@KrisiCrossi]

@@dlnishantabhishek2815 they actually DO make their own chips but do partner with TSMC for the phones (for Example They put their own chips in the non american S20s named "Exynos")

[@MikeinAustin]

@@dlnishantabhishek2815Samsung doesn’t manufacture the ARM chips for Apple. They do for others.

[@EddieStarr]

Apple announced the A4 in January 2010, and Steve Jobs confirmed the iPhone 4 would use it in June 2010. The A4 was also used in the first-generation iPad, fourth-generation iPod Touch, and second-generation Apple TV. I was there the day it was announced.

[@triadwarfare]

​@@dlnishantabhishek2815They used to manufacture chips with Samsung until their lawsuit that Samsung was copying Apple, hence, the year after that, they made an exclusivity contract with TSMC and had first dibs on new nodes.

[@GurionDavid]

Dude, where's your signature music?

[@Pearloryx]

Yeah I kinda miss it, probably because he doesn’t have to add awkward cuts with the videos illustrating about the chip situation.

[@thecapone45]

I don’t miss it… I used to binge his videos and the same song over and over would get on my nerves…

[@velociraptor5962]

90nm... and here we are talking about 2nm. wow.

[@SteveMichael]

Another side benefit of switching to Intel back in 2006 was that for the first time it allowed people with Macbooks to run Microsoft Windows without emulation. This was huge and got a ton of people that were scared of trying a Mac to adopt one. Me being one of them that got a Mac Pro and had Linux and Windows VM's running at near native speed.

[@IgorsPlay]

I’m really glad they did, M chips are fantastic! 🎉

[@chillinwithluis]

Damn right!

[@itsokayrozay]

You and Brandon Butch have a competition on who has the best news anchor voice 😂😂😂

[@WSK9002]

Being a kid of the 1990's, I never thought Intel would be declining and PC manufacturers would go elsewhere, but almost nothing stays the same.

[@thecapone45]

That’s how I felt when I found myself returning a PC laptop in favor of a Mac mini because… The Mac Mini was cheaper and faster… To say that someone is saving money by going for a Mac is not something I thought I’d say or hear but here we are.

[@farhanrejwan]

"all shall fall" that's the rule of the world.

[@Samsgaming310]

Yeah… this isn’t “Recent” at all as this has been out for a couple years now/

[@AchyutChaudhary]

*Next video idea:* who’s the best  Apple leaker! Mark Gurman, Ross Young, Jon Prosser, Ming-Chi Quo, etc…

[@aptiveviennapro]

Who is Ming-Chi Quo?

[@BrokenBonesRBLX]

Their leaks are always fake and filled with misinformation.

[@AchyutChaudhary]

*Quick video idea:* how much CPU, GPU, Neural Engine cores, Unified memory & SSD storage do you need (& how they matter)?

[@DavidRavenMoon]

It should be notated that ARM was founded as a joint venture between Acorn Computers, Apple, and VLSI Technology. Acorn provided 12 employees, VLSI provided tools, Apple provided a US$3 million investment (equivalent to $7 million in 2023). Larry Tesler, Apple VP was a key person and he helped recruit the first CEO at the joint venture, Robin Saxby. Apple had been using Acorn’s Archimedes in the Newton.

[@TheEulerID]

No, Apple did not use the Archimedes in the Newton device, or anything else for that matter. Archimedes was a line on Acorn computers, not a processor architecture. That was always called ARM, and used to power the Archimedes, but then stood for Acorn RISC machine, and was originally developed by the company on a shoestring with a tiny handful of engineers. When the Acorn Archimedes got steamrollered by the PC architecture, the processor business was split off and targeted at the mobile market due to its astonishingly low power consumption, and Acorn RISC machines became Advanced RISC Machines, which was where that critical Apple investment came in with the use of the ARM processor architecture in the Newton device. Ironically, Newton failed in the market, but the ARM processor became wildly successful and Apple divested themselves of their share in ARM as they were in desperate need of the capital. Nb. by coincidence or not, Isaac Newton was a professor from Cambridge, and Acorn and, therefore ARM was founded in that hat university city.

[@concertvids34]

I literally was frying an egg as part of breakfast for dinner when you used the analogy of a computer chip being so hot you could fry an egg on it.

[@danielgartin-oh9ik]

I still have an Intel chip in my MacBook Air, it’s the 2017 model but I still have macOS Sequoia on my computer,I used OpenCore Legacy Patcher to do that

[@lukesdoings7150]

I just did this for my 2014 MacBook Pro. Works great on Sequoia!

[@JustherefortheLOLZ]

I gave up on OCLP.. not worth it.

[@ronjon7942]

I’ve an I7 in my 12” Mac Retina, love it. I’ll easily use it til 2030 - probably way past that.

[@nicholashennessy4543]

And Intel has no one else to blame but themselves. They were the best on the market for good reason back when Steve was still around, even into the 2010s. Intel at a point got comfortable and stopped innovating, then in a rush to fend off the AMD Zen architecture, they produced flawed products that drew way too much power and produced too much heat. Apple was very smart to pull out when they could.

[@metyaricioglu9077]

the best explanation of apple switching of M chips 👏🏻 congratulations

[@betamax1091]

and thank goodness they did. I no longer have a room heater / Macbook Pro.

[@aptiveviennapro]

Now is the reverse.

[@whophd]

10:50 I was attending the keynote that year, and in the days that followed, with after-parties every night in San Francisco, word was getting around that Steve made this announcement against the wishes of IBM. Apparently they weren't willing to stick their necks out for "3 GHz", but he stuck their necks out for them. In fact the IBM engineers were saying there's no way they'd reach that speed in 12 months, and were only promising around 2.5 GHz, which is exactly what happened. When you think about it, "the Osborne effect" was exactly the sort of thing you try to avoid, especially when the memory of Osborne's mistake was fresh in the 1990s and 2000s. So the fact that Steve directly counteracted the golden rule of the Osborne effect, the rule of not pre-announcing next year's technology while announcing this year's technology, meant that something must have really been up.

[@NeonGreenKing]

Love this format. It’s been a while.

[@bertfarry3793]

The arm chip headquarters maybe now located in California but it was a British company and still subject to British law, Nvidia found that out

[@danielmiecz909]

My boy is back! Don’t remember last time I saw one of his videos

[@victor-iyi]

Greg, could you please bring back your signature background music and maybe some of those sweet animations you used to make. We love them! Apple Explained isn’t complete without that soothing background music.

[@scottscottsdale7868]

Nice video. I have seen other of your videos and I always loved the voice in the voice overs. Now to put a face to the voice is nice. You should be a professional voice over actor.

[@HootieMcCalvinball]

Very informative, thank you. What would be a good follow up is seeing how Apple took the “long way round “ of making iOS and A series chips 64-bit, then enabling devs to make iPad apps work on Mac OS, to finally moving to the M-series chips and the Rosetta 2 translation layer, along with their first laptop chip, the T2 security chip for MacBooks

[@Quadrille763]

Love your channel. Happy new year

[@whophd]

16:32 What really made "both companies are engineering driven" ring true, was the way Intel rolled out new technology much faster with Apple. Gone was the BIOS boot mode, finally replaced with UEFI. 64-bit was missing for 5 minutes but came up pretty quickly with the Core 2 Duo. Work must have begun pretty soon after that on Thunderbolt 1 (joint project between Intel and Apple), and remember how USB 1.0 existed but adoption was going nowhere until the iMac G3. Even the "Core" naming sequence commencement coincided with Apple's transition.

[@robertsteel3563]

Long time no see with the face to face conversation Type Video!!

[@leeeluu]

Thanks Greg for the amazing video!!

[@UrAvgMike]

recently? didn't this happen in 2020?

[@gusfring-yo9pt]

THANK YOU! I love the long form content

[@DankyMankey]

I didn’t know they used to call building a PC “cloning an IBM” in the 90’s

[@mendodave]

Yep IBM clone. I had several of those. Even built a few myself.

[@ronjon7942]

Yea - department stores like Sears, KMart, JC Penney’s, they even used the term in their marketing and in the stores, while also featuring the IBM PC.

[@gooseknack]

Because many were literally "clones" or a carbon copy. This was possible because IBM's original PC system was an open architecture system. This was done to encourage third party peripheral manufacturers to make peripherals. The result, was IBM Clones. Others, they did the right thing and created "IBM Compatible Computers". These were different from IBM's system, but compatible with IBM software and peripherals.

[@alexcraven2457]

You should do the history of text messaging from when it first blew up to the introduction of SMS then iMessage then how social media apps begin allowing the feature then when RCS was released when iPhones got RCS and how many companies are starting to kill off SMS ❤

[@UserfeedbackbyTea]

130-90nm is wild... In a world where 5nm is seen as old tech and 3nm is the standard... How far we have come

[@eclass_0394]

honestly if your using a touchbar mac anything from an i7 and i5 is pretty good but the i9 is like asking for a cup of acid cus that can turn your macbook into a stove

[@ps3301]

Apple is ditching their unified memory architecture in their server design

[@Royaleoake]

I remember those early 90’s Intel and Motorola commercials. Such an awesome time for computers.

[@wlsmojo]

Excellent Docco :-) thank you

[@jenovaizquierdo]

This is a great video! It's unfortunate that Samsung isn't using its own CPUs globally.

[@CyPheR_N]

Well, they are trash hotplates🦦

[@ronjon7942]

2:41 My wallpaper for awhile, after I got RIF’d from IBM. Classic picture. Heh, I remember when IBM was going to buy Apple, and the joke was: “What do you get after IBM buys Apple?” IBM

[@You-ike]

0:48 𝔂𝓮𝓪𝓱 𝓷𝓸 𝓴𝓲𝓭𝓭𝓲𝓷𝓰

[@theredrighteye4380]

I think our bro lagged by making this video like the intel chips.

[@matthewzachary]

Digging this longer-form narrative-driven production value. And seeing you is icing on the cake. No longer voice of God. Well done.

[@kaydreamer]

I took a gamble on buying an M1 MacBook Pro shortly after they released, after holding off on buying a new Mac throughout most of the late 2010's. (I even used a Microsoft Surface 4 for two years, so bad were Apple's offerings at the time.) I'm typing on that same MacBook now, 4 years later, and it's still an incredible machine. It runs as though it's brand new, and I expect it'll keep doing so for many years more. In contrast, that Microsoft Surface was slow, jittery, and frustrating to use - the lag in Clip Studio Paint was monstrous. It also still works, but it's extremely slow.

[@spandanmusser]

A great next video idea would be to explore what the neural processor actually does outside of Apple Intelligence

[@Derpy1969]

Saying that Jeff Cook told Jobs that making the processors themselves will actually increase their margins if the iPhone goes nuclear tells me that Cook was the right one to run Apple and continues to be.

[@ronjon7942]

Ahhh, warms my heart to see my favorite RS/6000 line w Power Processors. 😢I miss AIX. I guess LOPs good, and the hardware/OS integration is now tight; but it was so nice admin’ing proprietary Unix and servers. Those days are long gone. Laf, we had a 6-foot tall Power4+ p690, replaced it w a similarly-mainframe-size p595 (Power6 at the time). Years later, I was a Storage Engineer, and I remember scoffing at the 1u & 2u servers. Until I saw their specs. I bought a couple used Dell servers, a 1u R630 and a 2u R730. I don’t know about processor and memory bandwidth parity, but the core count and memory capacity of the 1u Dell exceeded the p690 and was about half the p595. It was quite a shock to me seeing a 6’ tall mainframe getting compared to a 1.5” tall pizza box. I guess it’s schoolyard rules to enjoy watching the leader get knocked down a few notches, but does anyone really believe Intel’s a bad company that makes poor products? Seems a bit harsh. So they’re wedded to Microsoft and PCs, seems to have been the right decision. And why make a power optimized chip for such a tiny market? Also, I’m sure Intel wishes they, or anyone, could have predicted the phone and tablet market. Then having a power optimized processor for the Mac would have slid right into the iPhone and iPad.

[@RUHappyATM]

Oh, laud, stumbled onto a cult of Apples!

[@dutoday]

amazing video. Thanks for sharing.

[@Artisjohny]

Great video, thank you

[@SeverusBlue]

Great video but you completely left out the ipad - think that would’ve been relevant since M1 is a modified A12Z.

[@vinuhak]

"Affordable" word is out from Apple's dictionary 😂

[@Erick-er2mv]

Request for the next video “why apple won’t invest iphone factory in Indonesia?”

[@whophd]

13:46 bit unfair to compare the Pentium I to the PowerPC G3. Surely the better comparison would be Pentium III with PowerPC G3, or Pentium I with PowerPC G1 (e.g. 601 or 604).

[@pgreenx]

I kind of like the short videos. I’m guessing it’s better control, of design and vertical supply chain integration

[@obscuracamaria2931]

Waiting for a video on the Siri lawsuit

[@NDakota79]

Those advertisement stickers on laptops are just one reason why I would never buy one. I already paid for the product, why is my laptop used as an advertising platform? Just imagine a MacBook with a shiny „Apple Silicon Inside“ sticker on it 😂

[@darthslackus499]

As a Windows user for 20+ years this is why I switched to the M4 mac mini. Intel and MS can have the 'finger' from me. Though Apple still gets the 'finger' from me for being a too tightly closed ecosystem.

[@masar-at]

Same

[@Thetache]

All I see is Jobs consistently making sweeping statements of intent and consistently apologising for not achieving, then making another sweeping statement of intent on repeat.

[@deadhandtcg]

Thank you for the very informative video!

[@carlweston4808]

great video!

[@SimonBauer7]

25:45 on the laptop Market. Desktop still has the ryzen 9 7950x3D. and dont forget about the threadripper 7995WX.

[@_shotacon]

Recently, internet services and computer companies have become very grasping. This may be the way it should be in business, but it is increasingly inconvenient for users. Can't something be done about it?

[@BobbiPhantom]

Oh now we see the face of Apple Explained

[@yasserbouchebaick6749]

Next idea video how Apple look like if Steve Jobs still alive

[@gershonvillamor4490]

I'm still using an intel Macbook Pro 2015 and Air 2015, not that I don't like having an M chip someday but, intel Macbooks are cheaper, intel apps compatibility, still have all the ports that I want and still gets the jobs done even if it's not crazy fast.

[@someasparagus]

I cannot WAIT to watch this when I eat supper

[@moominboobin1594]

almost 30 minutes for this topic? really? lol

[@Kirkules44]

Worth it

[@minogamesfan9203]

Wasn't this computer chip already in some Microsoft-based PCs?

[@moow950]

Recently???? Where have you been for over 4 years???????

[@Green_garlic_lady_gaga]

bro resently discovered apple stopped using intale based chips from 2020, [IT'S FREAKING 2025]

[@anandmishra-wl3ks]

I love these types of documentry

[@DrAnimePhD]

How about a video about the Apple vs Correllium lawsuit that they lost?

[@Dan-vu3vt]

Brother this video is 4 years late

[@ictman1558]

We miss you man

[@boyo2012]

What a beautiful and well crafted history breakdown of Apple and their overall chip decisions. One of your best videos; great start to 2025!

[@Totallycoolguy00]

Greg from apple explained face reveal 🤯 (btw love the content)

[@PaxAlotin]

As an Ex Apple user who has been a consumer since 1984 - it's interesting to look back at all the changes. I still like Apple - so don't get me wrong - but thing is - after 40 years of using home computers - I moved over to Linux & have no regrets.

[@jerbsherb4391]

Not recently but for at least 5 years now.

[@Jimjam69e]

Under an hour, gang.

[@a62dave]

Ads every 4 minutes are very distracting, interrupting you mid-word.

[@EdwardVGrimm]

5:10 wasn't this the Pepsi CEO that took over when Steve left? Could be wrong, so genuinely asking :)

[@apa5749]

yes that's John Sculley. he had no idea how to run a tech company.

[@adriancoanda9227]

17:53 person the dies size wants smaller just the socket was custom

[@WSK9002]

I don't know about anyone else, I was very skeptical about Apple making their own chips for their Macs, Power PC in the 1990's were very hit and miss, but then thee very difficult to win over tech reviewers gave the Mac Arm Chips high Marks.

[@tonystorcke]

In a word..... Heat. You can fry eggs on the Intel.

[@Joe-wk9ow]

not to mention the lack of competition in the x86 market from when AMD Athlon 64 was the top x86 chip till when AMD finally clawed its way back in 2017 with AMD Ryzen. AMD went from Athlon 64 to Phenom to FX before getting competitive again. If it wasn't for Skylake which came before AMD's first Ryzen chip I bet Apple would have looked at AMD first. But even AMD's chips had hit a wall recently with the 9950x. I think the future are these arm chips unless engineer's at Intel and AMD start looking at the big picture. I think it's time for a hybrid chip that can do both x86 and arm.

[@myothawtun7870]

Finally , u shows urself

[@stefanschneider3681]

Have a M1 MacBook Air and still love it! Only when I process 200 50MB astrophotos to stack them into one beautiful picture of something hidden in the dark skies, then it starts to struggle a bit 😉🤩!

[@CrazyCobraCC]

Ngl I don’t need to know why we upgraded, but I’ll chill for the discussion

[@osvaldoluna8863]

I can only see that Apple wants to be independently from other brands in relationships and partnerships little by little and subtly.

[@peporgan]

Apple Explained iconic music is missing; Guy's face is showing; Video is 4 years late; Video length is very, very long for a simple question. This is a bit weird. Go back to the old format?

[@zakem]

Shane detected ⚠️

[@Jack-pc9sp]

Apple doesn't care about Intel's performance or energy efficiency, considering Intel is not that far off from Apple's desktop and laptop chips. What Apple enjoys about ARM is ARM's more permissive licensing that allows them to diversify manufacturing partners, reducing costs and supply chain bottlencks, as well as integrating ARM tech into custom SoCs that can reduce cost and complexity compared to using off the shelf Intel chips. Finally, ARM helps Apple traps users into their walled garden with an incompatible architecture as they will likely eventually drop Rosetta for x86 as it did for PowerPC applications.

[@steveparsons]

interesting video once too know the background just wish you had a little enthusiasm in your voice

[@DaviCarneiro-f5x]

28 minutes? Is this worth watching or did chatgpt write the script like some of the latest videos?

[@DEFECTEDSTREETRACER]

Yup its worth watching it delves into history of powerpc and a few other details not covered by other apple explained videos your choice if you want to watch it though

[@DaviCarneiro-f5x]

@@DEFECTEDSTREETRACER alright, i'll watch it then haha thanks!